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What's the bet that MacOS will switch to the Linux kernel within the next five years?
by emmelaich 7y ago
What's the bet that MacOS will switch to the Linux kernel within the next five years?
- Sangeppato 7y agoIt's as likely as Google switching to the NT kernel for Andorid
- anticensor 7y agoWindows kernel is actually more suitable for Android than Linux kernel. In such an environment, JVM could have been the entire userland.
- kristianp 7y agoNot gonna happen. They already have a unix based OS (Darwin) that supports their Arm and x86 devices.
- nine_k 7y agoZero. They need full control.
- _ph_ 7y agoWhat would be the motivation for Apple to do such a thing? MacOS is already a Unix, with a BSD-based userland. Also, they are doing active kernel development - as in architecture development - to enhance the system security, so that even root cannot compromise the system. One part of this is moving kernel extensions into user processes thanks to the fact that Mach is a microkernel. They couldn't do that with the current Linux architecture.
- emmelaich 7y agoNot only can you do it with Linux, a lot is already done; with SELinux, apparmour, grsecurity, PaX, qubes. They'd also save on kernel development AND get docker and a lot of other goodies.